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Kennedy once said of those who would oppose us: “We dare not tempt them with weakness. .. Obama has decided that indeed we are going to tempt them with weakness. – IBD

He can wait until after he is no longer accountable to the American people. Obama hints to the Russians that they will get what they want if they just wait until after he is reelected.

This treaty is a monument to President Obama’s naive dream of a “world without nuclear weapons.” Our security will rest on ambiguous language and vague assurances, not on the genius of U.S. technology.

Call today! 202-224-3121. Jon Voight and Mark Steyn discuss the START treaty.

Sen. Kyl said. “We got snookered on missile defense. … We got snookered on tactical nuclear weapons. We got snookered on verification.”

It’s no secret that the Russians do not want the United States or her allies to be protected by missile defense, and believe that New START forbids further development of missile defense.

The New START treaty, its protocols and annexes all limit U.S. missile defense options. Don’t just take our word for it. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says so too, insisting that “linkage to missile defense is clearly spelled out in the accord and is legally binding.”

“New START suffers from fundamental flaws that no amount of tinkering around the edges can fix. I believe the better course for our nation, and for global stability, is to put this treaty aside and replace it with a better one,” Sen. Christopher S. Bond, Missouri Republican, said in a little-noticed floor statement last week.

Sen. Kyl said the Senate should not consider the pact during the lame-duck session of Congress. President Obama has called passage of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) his top foreign policy priority during the lame-duck session that began this week.

In what the Post describes as a “high-octane lobbying” campaign, Gates has already offered Kyl an extra $4 billion in spending on nuclear programs in exchange for his vote. This is on top of the existing $10 billion Administration pledge. This deal is bad policy and deplorable politics.